Chronic disease is today one of the most vicious threats to good health and longevity. According to the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, a chronic disease is one lasting 3 months or more. One thing many people do not know is that, chronic diseases generally cannot be cured by medication, nor do they just disappear. The World Health Organisation (WHO) had observed that chronic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity, arthritis, high blood pressure or hypertension, etc are by far the leading cause of untimely deaths in the world, representing 60% of all deaths. WHO further asserted that this invisible epidemic is an under-appreciated cause of poverty and hinders the economic development of many countries particularly low and middle income countries like Nigeria. Considering the amount of money that people waste on medications managing a chronic disease and the man-hour lost due to illnesses associated with it, the Centres for D...

Today, many things are happening in our country but it is a pity that so many Nigerians do not know about them. You won’t hear it from my mouth, like Jesus will say, “He who has ear let him hear”. But, pleas, before you skip to the next post, let me ask you, how market? Ah, forgive me; I didn’t know that you are not into buying and selling. Anyway, how are you enjoying the economic recession? I heard from the news this morning that the honourable minister of Finance, Aunty Kemi Adeosun said that  Nigeria is coming out of recession. Is it true? In her words, “Nigeria is coming out of recession; we are beginning to see the signs and we will come out to become stronger.” Thank Godooooo. At least, we can now begin to talk about the Nigerian economy without adding the recession. But wait, Baba Audu Ogbe is scaring me; why is he saying that the federal government is disturbed over high cost of local rice in the country, which according to him is now above the price of im...

The World Day for Safety and Health at Work is an annual event marked globally by the International Labour Organization (ILO) on the 28 th day of April to promote the prevention of occupational accidents and diseases. It is an awareness-raising campaign intended to attract international attention to the magnitude of the problem and how promoting and creating a safety and health culture can help reduce the number of work-related deaths and injuries. A recent statistics of work-related deaths by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) indicates that one worker dies every 15 seconds worldwide, 6,300 people die every day as a result of occupational accidents or work-related diseases and this amounts to more than 2.3 million deaths per year. The report further observed that about 317 million accidents occur on the job annually; many of these resulting to permanent disabilities. This obviously shows that annually, more people seem to die at work than at wars. Although the sta...